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6993 001400 viewsWelshpool, Goninan Open Day 27th August, 1988. Mt Newman Mining's Goninan new build GE CM39-8 model loco 5630 'Zeus' serial 5831-09 / 88-079.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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200914 7769400 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society, former ALCo built demonstrator locomotive model C-415 serial 3449-1 built April 1966, currently carrying number 1000, it was originally numbered 008 when Hamersley Iron purchased the unit in 1968. It was retired from service on the 24th February 1982. It then spent some time carrying number 2000 while building the Marandoo railway line from Sept 1991. 14th September 2020.
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197-02399 viewsGoldsworthy Junction, looking west with the end of the triangle or wye, signal post is GJ 7, empty iron ore train on approach.
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130720 1557399 viewsFlash Butt yard, out of service crib waggon a cut down Magor USA built Oroville ore waggon, seen here with a new Ausco donga replacing the original ATCO unit.
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240-23399 viewsWickham town entry statement, concrete plinth with plaque outlining the history of the MLW built ALCo model RSC3 units operated by Robe River prior to preservation and on the NSWGR as originally 40 class 4006. 31st August 2002.
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240-34399 viewsSeven Mile, trailing view of a loaded train heading for Parker Point behind a pair of Pilbara Rail, Robe River owned, General Electric built Dash 9-44CW units 9470 serial 53455 and 9471 serial 53456. These and sister unit 9472 were the first painted in the Pilbara Rail livery. 31st August 2002.
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151206 9657399 viewsBoodarie, on a Gavin Transport Drake float, BHP's new track recording vehicle which is a Mermec ROGER 800 imported from Italy. Underbody detail of the testing units.
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200914 7787399 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society, passenger carriage 'Conference Car' originally built by Clyde Engineering at Granville NSW in 1935 for the NSWGR as a second class railway carriage FS type FS 2010. In 1975 it was purchased by Hamersley Iron and converted to an inspection vehicle SV 4. When donated to the Society it was repurposed as a conference car. 14th September 2020.
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203-18398 viewsBing Siding, with the empty clear, BHP General Electric AC6000 unit 6076 'Mt Goldsworthy' serial 51068 powers its' train out of the passing track at Bing South.
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150522 8171398 viewsWedgefield, Sims Metal yard, Goninan built CM40-8 unit 5647 serial 8244-12/92-136 stands next to two ALCo rebuilds into CM40-8M units being 5657 and 5656, serial no's 8412-02/94-148 and 8412-01/94-147.
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170728 09716398 views38 km on approach to Harding Siding an empty train rounds the curve under the Water Corp pipe bridge lead by Rio Tinto stripe liveried unit 8147 serial 58728 an General Electric built ES44DCi unit with a sister unit 8149 sandwiching 7065 a Dash 9-44CW unit. 28th July 2017. GeoData.
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240-33398 viewsSeven Mile, trailing view of Pilbara Rail, Robe River owned, General Electric built Dash 9-44CW unit 9470 serial 53455. This and sister units 9471 and 9472 were the first painted in the Pilbara Rail livery. 31st August 2002.
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200914 7811398 viewsPilbara Railways Historical Society, the Locotrol 'cab' from Goninan WA rebuild CM40-8ML unit 5663 Newcastle, one of three units built without a driving cab in 1994 but with a Locotrol equipment cabinet to do away with the Locotrol waggons that were in use at the time. Eventually the three locomotives had driving cabs fitted. Donated to the Society around 1998? 14th September 2020.
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151111 9521397 viewsA loaded train behind General Electric ES44DCi units 8113 serial 59105 in the original silver livery and 8145 serial 58726 in the tiger strip Rio livery and Dash 9-44CW 9433 serial 54766 in ROBE Pilbara Iron livery runs along on the West Mainline bound for Cape Lambert viewed from Table Hill.
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23100397 viewsBassendean, Goninan workshops, loaded onto a hundred and four six wheel road transport float, Robe River rebuild GE CM40-8M unit 9422 serial 8297-03 / 93-138 is loaded awaiting transport to Cape Lambert. 9422 was rebuilt from Comeng NSW built ALCo M636 9422 serial C6103-2 from Aug 1977 and kept this number when rebuilt here. March 1993.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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040407 075425397 viewsMooka Siding, LED colour light signal head MAN 6 located at the north end of the passing siding, departure signal.
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6990 001397 viewsWelshpool, Goninan Open Day 27th August, 1988. Rear view of the pilot and radiator wing section of Mt Newman Mining's Goninan new build GE CM39-8 model loco 5630 'Zeus' serial 5831-09 / 88-079.
Jim Bisdee photo.
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151206 9649397 viewsBoodarie, parked up in a parking bay just out of town on a Sunday awaiting delivery on the following day, on a Gavin Transport Drake float, BHP's new track recording vehicle which is a Mermec ROGER 800 imported from Italy. ROGER is an acronym for Rilievo Ottico Geometria Rotaia, Italian for optical rail geometry control.
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223-17396 viewsPossum Siding, trailing view of Hamersley Iron loco 7080 a General Electric built Dash 9-44CW serial 47759 second unit behind sister locomotive 7082 looking south. 21st October 2000.
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150505 7990396 viewsFMG Solomon Line, bank engines Progress Rail EMD SD70ACe/LCi unit 716 serial 20118693-008 and EMD SD90MAC unit 901 serial 976833-1, this unit has been repowered with an 16-710G3 prime mover, at the 227 km as they bank the loaded train upgrade into the cutting, the train speed is now increasing as the front of the train has topped the grade. Geodata: -22.0187117 118.5850933 .
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